After hearing this music I'm on a mission to get this lady known. Like some Robert Johnson she dropped these pearls and moved on. These songs to me are another equivalent to that paper weight in '1984'. Like proof of a fully formed alternative world. Connie Converse was recording these and other multi tracks in her kitchen in the '50s. The same time Les Paul was developing multi track recording. These tracks are 70 years old!! When she put these down Dylan was still baling hay to pay for his first Stella. I can see her being the one in a million legitimately unimpressed with the Beatles on Sullivan as it happened. She was a legit singer songwriter 20 years before the term existed. The song "Roving Woman" has so much social commentary I'm sure it would've inspired Dylan. Lyrically she distills the absurdity of life like Steely Dan but with limitless sincerity. As with them her originality does not lend itself to being covered. And just like them not everyone's gonna get it. She records the female perspective like Tayler Swift but from a more nuanced age. But also accurately from the male perspective. And she bears witness to it all. Another pioneering woman no one's ever heard of. That's the tragedy of Connie Converse. The lesson of Connie's life like so many others is 'Hang in There!'...she abandoned her dream, if it ever was and left Greenwich Village like the year before Dylan came to NY. No doubt she smoked a cigarette or two on stage at 'Cafe Wha?'. And I guarantee Dylan heard her name a few times. It was still written on the wall somewhere. "Man it's a drag this chic Connie's not here you would've dug her man." She left a note for her brother that said don't look for me and was never seen again. Thank him for guarding her treasure. The whole album has a pure crystalline pre-folk sound. There's no incklings of Woodie Guthrie in this lady. But they both recorded the human condition flawlessly. She was genuine and original. Her introspective sound would've added so much more depth to the scene. It's striking. There's not a bad song on this album. It's an injustice few know this legend! How sad, how lovely.